Having a chemical free garden means not using pesticides. So, if I’m not using pesticides, how do I keep the bugs from eating the vegetables? Well, there are two strategies that are closely related. One is to encourage good bugs that eat the bad bugs to come and live in my garden. The other is […]
It’s that time of year. The leaves are turning beautiful autumn colors and coating our lawns, sidewalks, and driveways with a blanket of red, yellow, orange and brown. As usual this incites a flurry of activity. There’s raking, stooping, scooping and bagging to be done. Then there’s the lifting of all those bags into your […]
Hi. I’m Boyd, a board member at Project Food Forest. I grew up on a farm in Clark County, SD. In the early fifties we raised pigs, sheep, chickens, cows and occasionally ducks, geese and turkeys. We milked cows and sold the cream. We grew oats, barley, rye, flax, wheat, winter wheat, millet and a […]
As you all are aware from my previous blog post about me, I’m an active participant in building brighter, more inclusive communities with my educational endeavors in urban planning and development. Vacant parcels of land are often thought of in terms of development potential or the highest and best use of the land. The revitalization […]